WILMINGTON - United States Attorney George E.B. Holding announced that in federal
court yesterday Senior United States District Judge James C. Fox
sentenced JAMAL MONTA WATSON, also known as “Gunna,” 31, from
Greensboro, North Carolina, to 188 months’ imprisonment, three
years of supervised release. The Court imposed restitution in the
amount of $2,800.

On March 1, 2009, WATSON pled guilty to aiding and abetting
the distribution of heroin and unlawful possession of a firearm by
a convicted felon.

The investigation, an Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task
Force Operation (OCDETF) investigation entitled Operation Face Off,
centered around a violent Raleigh/Durham-based drug organization
responsible for the multi-kilogram distribution of heroin, cocaine,
and cocaine base. Drug Enforcement Administration agents utilized
a wiretap in the investigation. WATSON was the last of the named
defendants in a superseding indictment that charged the leader of
the Face Mob Family, Donald Stanton Shealey, and members and
associates, Gilbert Ernesto Sherwood, Salahudeen Abdul Abdallah,
Khalid Usama Abdallah, Tyrone Ricardo Lawrence, Timothy Lamont
Hargrove, Samara Scott, and Leketa Smith with a drug distribution
conspiracy, drug distribution, money laundering conspiracy and
money laundering crimes. The Government also charged a related
defendant, Shawn Brown, with engaging in a money laundering
conspiracy with Shealey. WATSON’S role was that of a drug
distributor and enforcer.

The investigation is ongoing. The law enforcement agencies
conducted the investigation include the Drug Enforcement
Administration, Federal Bureau of Investigation, State Bureau of
Investigation, Raleigh Police Department, and Durham Police
Department. Assistant United States Attorneys Michael G. James
and Denise Walker are the assigned prosecutors.

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